Forbes has come up with its 2010 list the world's most powerful women and they include heads of state and first ladies, bankers and cultural icons, CEOs and entrepreneurial athletes. Forbes divided the power women candidates into four groups: politics, business, media and lifestyle. It ranked the women in each group, and then group against group. Two Indian women, Axis bank Chief Executive Shikha Sharma and ICICI bank head Chanda Kocchar also made it to the list.

"Her 25th season of Oprah, the program that has launched multiple careers, spawned countless bestsellers and helped millions of women feel that someone, at last, understands them, will air its final show on Sept. 9, 2011,” according to Forbes